Musicians of to-day

by Romain Rolland

[137] C. Saint-Saëns, Portraits et Souvenirs.

[138] Portraits et Souvenirs.

[139] Revue d'Art dramatique, 5 February, 1899.

[140] Vincent d'Indy: Cours de Composition musicale, Book I, drawn up from notes taken in Composition classes at the Schola Cantorum, 1897-1898, p. 16 (Durand, 1902). See also the inaugural speech given at the school, and published by the Tribune de Saint-Gervais, November, 1900.

[141] Vincent d'Indy, Cours de Composition musicale, p. 132.

[142] Id., ibid., p. 13.

[143] Id., ibid., p. 25. In the thirteenth century, Philippe de Vitry, Bishop of Meaux, called triple time "perfect," because "it hath its name from the Trinity, that is to say, from the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, in whom is divine perfection."

[144] Id., ibid., pp. 66, 83, and passim.

[145] Id., ibid.

[146] "Make war against Particularism, that unwholesome fruit of the Protestant heresy!" (Speech to the Schola, taken from the Tribune de Saint-Gervais, November, 1900.)